//#region src/core/sprite-animation.d.ts
interface AnimationDef {
  /**
  * Two numbers = inclusive [start, end] frame RANGE.
  * Any other length = explicit frame list.
  */
  frames: number[];
  fps: number;
  loop?: boolean;
}
/**
* A clip, or the NAME of another clip in the same map.
*
* The alias exists because the character a game is built from and the character
* a controller describes are not the same vocabulary.
* `CharacterController2D`/`3D` emit `idle`/`run`/`jump`/`fall`/`wallSlide`/
* `dash`; the sheets in the engine's own catalog carry `idle`/`move`/`attack`,
* and no sheet anywhere ships a `fall`. So the documented one-line wiring —
* `movementStateChanged → play` — asked for clips that do not exist, and the
* hard error was correct and useless: there is nothing to rename it TO.
*
* An alias is the missing half. `"fall": "idle"` says what to show while
* falling, in the scene, next to everything else about that character.
*/
type AnimationEntry = AnimationDef | string;
/**
* Follow aliases to the clip that actually plays.
*
* Chains are allowed (`fall → jump → idle`) because they are how a fallback
* ladder reads, and a cycle is a hard error rather than a hang.
*/
declare function resolveAnimation(animations: Record<string, AnimationEntry>, name: string, owner: string): {
  name: string;
  def: AnimationDef;
};
/**
* `[start, end]` is a RANGE; anything else is an explicit list.
*
* Two ascending numbers are overwhelmingly a range in every sheet format, and
* a two-frame flip-book is spelled `[3, 3, 4, 4]` or a descending pair.
*/
declare function resolveFrames(frames: number[], name: string): number[];
//#endregion
export { resolveFrames as i, AnimationEntry as n, resolveAnimation as r, AnimationDef as t };